Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (40 mails)

RE: [suse-multimedia-e] no MIDI from SoundBlaster Live!

From:
Pieter Hulshoff <hulshoff@xxxxxxxxxx>

Date:
Wed, 08 May 2002 14:04:11 +0200

Message-id:
<3CD9143B.C320E7B4@xxxxxxxxxx>

Glenn Holmer wrote:
> Just upgraded to SuSE 8.0 from 7.2. I had the SB Live working great
> under 7.2, with soundfonts for MIDI and everything. Now under 8.0,
> KDE's Control Center shows me nothing under Sound/MIDI. MIDI files
> don't play even after using sfxload. gamix now shows a breathtaking
> panoply of options, but I still can't get MIDI sound. What am I
> missing?

I seem to be having similar problems with SuSE 8.0:
- KDE's Control Center shows me nothing under Sound/MIDI
- MIDI files don't play in many programs

However:
after sfxload (I linked the default to the SBLIVE 8MB soundfont), I can:
- play midi through pmidi (to the correct port of course)
- play midi in smurf (but can't save the darn soundfonts! :()
- play midi in shaketracker (after setting the correct output port)
- play midi in kmid (but I do have to load the file directly; it doesn't work by
clicking on the file in Konquerer, and the preview doesn't work either)

It seems something is not quite right, but at least I'm a tad ahead of you. :)
See if you can get some sound through pmidi. Perhaps we can figure this one out
together.

In the mean time: if someone can tell me how to get Smurf to save my soundfonts
I'd be much obliged...

Regards,

Pieter Hulshoff

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